Throwback Thursday: Well-Loved Books

[mizkit]

A hash tag popped up on Twitter yesterday, #WellLovedBooks, and I immediately went and took pictures of several of mine. I thought they’d make a kind of nice different Throwback Thursday post idea, too, so I present to you a handful of my well-loved books. :)

My 8th birthday prsent: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, which I read to pieces. <3

Comments

[herefox]

I have most of the same books on my shelves, though my Robin McKinley of reread tends to be Beauty...I tend to snap up copies I see in used book stores of that one if they're in okay condition since I've read two to pieces. Same with "Forgotten Beasts of Eld" by Patricia McKillip.

I was hoping the secret country books would get rereleased when Pamela Dean published the Ruth book she was talking about doing but it sounds like that may have been cancelled (I admit to a bit of lalalalalala I don't want to know when it started sounding like it might not happen so I'm not sure)

Oddly, I only read the first couple of Unicorn books too. I think you're right, it's because they took way too long to come out and I'd moved on to other things. I should see if I can find used copies.

[pameladean]

My ears are burning. :-) The publisher did cancel the book, but I'm going to self-publish it within the next year. It needs some tweaking and expanding, and connected stories ("Owlswater" and The Dubious Hills) need to be re-released as well

[herefox]

Yay! Although I feel kind of bad because I actually had avoided asking you on your journal about it because I didn't want to be a pest about it ;-) I've been very excited to read it since the Secret Country books are some of my favorite comfort reads. Thankfully I realized when I was a late-ish teenager that I loved the books so mine are still in sort of good condition but I'll definitely keep an eye out for the other editions.

[pameladean]

You are really welcome to ask questions like that of me at any time. Such questions are very seldom pestiferous. It's nice, in a career that has ups and downs and sideways weird bits, to know that people are still interested.

P.

[mizkit]

Your host does know about the newish ones, and has regretted NOT BUYING THEM for about, let's see. 12 years now. The covers were so beautiful! And also my originals would be in less danger of falling apart... :)

[pameladean]

My editor (Sharyn November) actually consulted me about the covers. Nobody has EVER done that before. That's why there's a tiny cardinal on each one. This still makes me ridiculously happy.

I have a hard time actually getting around to buying reissues too. There are so very many new books, and the old copies one has read and reread have such resonance.

P.

[mizkit]

Also, when you eventually get the rights back, I will single-handledly fund a Kickstarter to get Deluxe Hardcover Editions, if necessary, of the original trilogy... :)

[deborahblakehps]

Sign me on for that one right now :-)

[deborahblakehps]

Be sure to have Catie post here when you finally put it out, please!

[mizkit]

I think my copy of BEAUTY fell so totally apart that I was obliged to actually get rid of it. I have a hardback copy now, but it's not the Right Hardback...